Word: expansionist
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...deplore. The more Zionism resorts to intrigue, whipping up animosity, the more the world by innuendo will blame not just Israel but the Jewish people, some of whom are completely innocent. We consider it logical to expect the good Jews, who are not interested in this kind of expansionist glory, to stand up to Zionism. I know for a fact that in the U.S. there do exist Jewish groups and societies that are opposed to Zionism...
...study?Project Independence?had not been completed prior to the message. In contrast to Richard Nixon, who liked to rush up instant cures for maximum effect, Ford prefers to analyze a problem systematically, however deliberate his pace. As the recession deepened, he continued to listen and prepare for more expansionist policies, as some of his advisers urged. To his credit, he continued to take sometimes uncongenial action against inflation. He pocket-vetoed the cargo preference bill, which would have vastly increased the price of oil by requiring that...
Aloni: "A West Bank state, if demilitarized for security reasons, might be a real solution." Olmert: "The West Bank is too limited for a separate independent state. Such a state would by nature be expansionist...
...plan was to gain some time. The Turkish plan for the military occupation of Cyprus-a plan involving some 300 tanks, 40,000 troops and masses of heavy artillery-was not dreamed up overnight. It was a plan to conquer Cyprus that was already in existence. It was an expansionist Turkish military plan. I knew that. Two days before the second phase of the Geneva Conference, I asked Kissinger if he would see me to discuss the situation...
...boundlessly in all directions. He was the chief promoter, for example, of revenue sharing, one domestic innovation of the Nixon Administration that seems destined to survive. If he is not a politician of remarkable depth-not especially eloquent or incisive-he is one of extraordinary breadth. His impulse is expansionist: where there is a need, fill it-and the sooner the better. Let routine administrators tidy up afterward. Rockefeller has exuberantly strewn New York State with his political largesse. Most of it has been beneficent (schools, hospitals, mass transit, antipollution facilities), but some has been dubious (his massive $1 billion...